US Patent Issued to Panasonic Holdings, TOYOTA JIDOSHA on June 17 for "Device for manufacturing electrode plate and method for manufacturing electrode plate" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,334,541, issued on June 17, was assigned to Panasonic Holdings Corp. (Osaka, Japan) and TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Aichi, Japan).

"Device for manufacturing electrode plate and method for manufacturing electrode plate" was invented by Tetsumasa Maruo (Hyogo, Japan) and Tomofumi Hirukawa (Toyota, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A manufacturing apparatus for an electrode plate includes: a conveyance line of the electrode plate having an applied portion in which an electrode active material is applied to a surface of a base material and a non-applied portion in which the electrode active material is not applied to the surface of the base mate...